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Re: It's the next best thing to being there!
Pawlowski Hubert 2012-Jul-12 12:43:00
Hi Bostjan,
You can't imagine how your remark concerning how to name the VPR is up
to day! On polish panoramic forum, we discuss about the same problem.
May I join a polish translation of your comment in our debate?
Hubert Pawlowski
Le 12/07/12 13:20, Bostjan Burger a écrit :
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> VRP is abbreviation for Virtual Reality Panorama. As you most probably
> know there is a lot of confusion how to name "Virtual Reality
> Panorama". It seems that in English panorama is 360° image
> (photography, drawing, DMR ...), flat indeed. As an example in my
> language (Slovenian) panorama is every wide angle image which presents
> landscape - it can not be panorama of the room, cave, ... sounds so
> funny in my language, I suppose it is same with German as the language
> logic-gramar are very similar. The projection procedure makes panorama
> (which is a "print" media a "Virtual Reality Panorama" which is
> displayed on the screen. Indeed VRP is not 3D. When I started with
> panography I needed to get a name in my native language for that new
> media and I started with "surround photography" (if translated
> literally to English) if the base was panoramic photo or surround
> image if the base was drawing, painting or DMR.
> I wrote some academic papers last decade of the use of VRP when
> documenting geography, mostly documenting caves and I needed to be
> specific what is a difference between flat panorama for printing and
> what is the "immersive version", that is Virtual Reality Panorama or
> VRP. I sometimes use not full (partial) 360° panoramas for a base to
> transform into VRPs so I prefer use of Virtual Reality Panorama. As it
> seems that VRP is obsolete term as there is not real much of "virtual
> reality" - only kind of effect, I am starting to use the literally
> translation from Slovene to English which is "Surround Photography"
> and to be more clear add 360° (when the base for the projection was
> 360° panroama):
> http://www.zivljenjenadotik.si/en/projects/surround-photography/
>
> :) Bostjan
>
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> Just wanted to know what is VRP .
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> What do you mean?
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> Bostjan
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> Google is also providing a Virtual walkthrough like option. Google
> streetview is even enhanced where you can put and link your business
> with your virtual tours. It is same thing like our Virtual Reality
> Panoramas. Differences are it is linked with Google map coordinates &
> there are linked panoramas of place (room, lobby, boutique) after
> approx every 5-10 feet distance which creates a virtual walkthrough
> like experience.
>
> Bostjan, is there anything new related to VRP???
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